AASLH Statement on Charlottesville
Rotunda at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) abhors not only the violence [...]
AASLH Announces 3 New Books from Rowman & Littlefield
The AASLH Series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers is proud to announce three new titles for summer. Covering a wide range of [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Welcome to Our House: How Visitor Experience Planning at Pittock Mansion Lead to Record Attendance
Visitors exploring Pittock Mansion’s 16,000 square feet. As many historic house museums across the country experience declining visitation, [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
A Golden Age for Historic Properties
In the Summer 2007 History News, John and Anita Durel predicted that "Historic properties are on the verge of a [...]
Grant Opportunity: Civic Engagement Through Literature with the NEA Big Read
Have you heard of the NEA Big Read? The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the application guidelines for [...]
Using Nomenclature 3.0: Cross-Indexing
New users of Nomenclature 3.0 sometimes wonder how to catalog objects that have multiple functions, or that can be named according to various characteristics. Which of [...]
Call for Posters 2015
This year the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is holding our annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 16-19. We are proud [...]
Make a Home for History in Congress
When we want to advocate at the national level for historical institutions and what our community does, it helps if our Congressional representatives are already [...]
TrendsWatch 2015
Every year, the American Alliance of Museums' Center for the Future of Museums publishes a forecasting report that summarizes emerging trends in the museum world. The [...]
AASLH Hosts Luncheon at AAM 2015
On April 27, AASLH hosted a luncheon at the American Alliance of Museums annual meeting in Atlanta. Members and friends took time out of their busy [...]
Going Postal: Postcards as Local History
As a student, it isn’t very often that your projects go beyond the classroom and into the community. However, this is one aspect of my [...]